/* Copyright (c) 2003,2004, Stefan Haustein, Oberhausen, Rhld., Germany * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or * sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The  above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS * IN THE SOFTWARE.  * * Contributor(s): John D. Beatty, F. Hunter, Renaud Tognelli * * */package org.ksoap2.serialization;import java.util.Hashtable;/** provides get and set methods for properties. Can be used to    replace reflection (to some extend) for "serialization-aware"    classes. Currently used in kSOAP and the RMS based kobjects object    repository */public interface KvmSerializable {    /**     * Returns the property at a specified index (for serialization)     *     * @param index the specified index      * @return the serialized property     */    Object getProperty (int index);    /** returns the number of serializable properties */    int getPropertyCount ();     /**     * sets the property with the given index to the given value.     * @param index the index to be set     * @param value the value of the property     */    void setProperty (int index, Object value);     /**      * Fills the given property info record.      * @param index the index to be queried      * @param properties  information about the (de)serializer     * @param info  The return parameter, to be filled with information     *    about the property with the given index. */        void getPropertyInfo (int index, Hashtable properties, PropertyInfo info);    }